Going mobile – there’s no excuse

Google mobile app for iPhone

Google issued an interesting update to its iPhone app the other day. Aside from slipping a few more of its innovations under the radar and into the Apple universe, its now branding its suite of web services as ‘Apps’. While you have to use Google’s overarching app to access them, until now its online services [...]

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LinkedIn adds reviews to Company Pages

LinkedIn Company Pages

An important launch took place in the world of social media yesterday. LinkedIn, the professional’s network not known for new innovations, has caught onto the recommendation trend, launching Company Pages (should this be relaunch?). Now companies who maintain a profile on the site can list products and services and start encouraging customers to recommend them. [...]

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The trade of going mobile

mobile content

Shrewd readers may have noticed my blog going mobile last week courtesy of the WPtouch wordpress plugin (thanks guys). This is an important change for me and the media in general. Not because my blog is amazing, but because of the increasing importance of mobile in delivering content to readers. Mobile penetration in the UK [...]

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Associated Press goes iPad

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How we laughed at the Trekies running around in their tight ‘space age’ suits and ‘replicating’ breakfast, lunch and dinner out of thin air. Laugh no more, while I’m not yet the proud owner of my very own hollo-suite, soon enough I will undoubtedly be reading news and other content using Apple’s iPad. How 2010! [...]

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Free for all – is the Evening Standard’s move a good one?

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So the Standard has gone freesheet after the seemingly snap announcement a week or so ago. The age old London brand has decided to negate any kind of paid-for income after various trials of scaled charging and late-night free issues. The move will come as sobering news to the London Lite, battle scarred over its [...]

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